Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:46:41 -0400 To: "cygwin@sources.redhat.com" Subject: Re: Getting back deleted files Message-ID: <20000719214641.A22895@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: "cygwin@sources.redhat.com" References: <20000720001416.24779.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> <397656D5.9745B93B@cmr.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <397656D5.9745B93B@cmr.uq.edu.au>; from Ben.Lawrence@cmr.uq.edu.au on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:33:09AM +1000 On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:33:09AM +1000, Ben Lawrence wrote: >> --- Ben Lawrence wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I have accidently used the rm *.* command in cygwin1.1.0 on NT. >> > Is there any chance of getting back my work? >> > thanks, >> > Ben >> > > >Hello again, >I think it would be a real neat idea to modify the rm.exe so that >rm file.xxx >utility is actually >mv file.xxx c:/cygwin/tmp > >Also, whenever rm is invoked it would check the current date and the date of all >the files in the c:/cygwin/tmp directory. If all the files have yesterday's date >or earlier, it would delete that whole c:/cygwin/tmp directory. That way, any >deleted files would be saved for at least a day. I'm not sure whom you are addressing this to, but there is certainly nothing stopping you from writing this utility. Cygwin, being a UNIX emulation, is going to stay with emulating UNIX's rm command. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com